Ouster Wins Autonomous Vehicle Technology ACES Award for Lidar

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Ouster, a leading manufacturer of high-resolution lidar sensors, today announced that it has won an ACES award from Autonomous Vehicle Technology magazine for its breakthrough OS-1 and OS-2 sensors. The magazine awarded Ouster for its multi-beam flash lidar technology, which uses an all-silicon approach for its lasers and sensors.

Autonomous Vehicle Technology magazine wrote:

Since its launch in December 2017, Ouster has focused on achieving LiDAR simplicity by combining hardware and a software/visualizer to create a full sensor solution for the autonomous vehicle market. For its OS-1-64 LiDAR, the company paired streamlined design, manufacturing, and reliability with high resolution and a breakthrough in machine learning. While most legacy LiDAR sensors require over a thousand discrete components to achieve 64-channel resolution, its solution combines all components into two custom ASICs measuring just 1 cm2 each. The sensor is built on complementary metal-oxide semiconductor, application-specific integrated circuit, silicon technology?allowing for massive amounts of digital computation and processing of over 1 trillion photons per second. In addition, digital signal processing on the same chip results in a simultaneous drop in price and power consumption and an increase in performance. These hardware innovations have resulted in the smallest, lightest, cheapest, most accurate, and most powerful 64-channel LiDAR, claims the company. In addition, it is the LiDAR solution that simultaneously outputs both 2D and 3D data in a perfectly spatially correlated way, with zero temporal mismatch or shutter effects. This breakthrough means that 2D camera deep learning algorithms can be used on data without significant modification, solving current challenges in making 3D data usable.

"Our OS-1 and OS-2 lidar sensors take a unique, all-silicon approach, which has several significant advantages. We can deliver high range and resolution while keeping the sensor small, compact, and inexpensive. We're excited to accept this award as continued validation of all the hard work our team has put in over the last three years," said Ouster CEO Angus Pacala.

About Ouster:

Ouster is bringing lidar to the masses with its breakthrough multi-beam flash lidar technology, which is available to purchase today. Ouster's OS-1 lidar is a fundamentally new approach to lidar, enabling high-resolution, long-range 2D and 3D imaging at a fraction of the cost. Ouster is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Ouster Media Contact:
Derek Frome
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